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ONTHLY.
" OPEN THT MOUTH FOR THE DUMB, IN THE CAUSE OF ALL SUCH AS ARE APPOINTED TO DESTRUCTION ; OPEN THT MOUTH,
JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY, AND PLEAD THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY." Proverbs XXxL 8, 9.
VOLUME IV.
NUMBER IV.
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1861.
PRICE
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
CONTENTS OF THE PRESENT NUMBER.
The Progress of the War 513
Cast off the Mill Stone „- 514
Shall Slavery Survive the War? ... 515
Fighting Rebels with only one Hand 516
l&ev. Mt. Qai-net revisits England 516
Our Army still at Slave-Catching 517
Our Soldiers and Contrabands 517
tetter to President Lincoln 518
No Terms with Traitors 5X8
Nat Turner's Insurrection 520
A Right Kind ol Colonel 522
Wendell Phillips ou the War 523
Whv was John Brown Hung? 523
The Contraband Question 524
The War, Washington, and Black Warriors 525
Poetry 525
The Negroes at Fortress Monroe 526
An Important Admisssion _ 526
Separation or Emancipation 527
Black Heroism 627
Miscellaneous Items 627
DoWLTfFTpTHLY!
" I lay this down as the law of nations.
I say that the military authority takes, for
the time, the place of municipal institutions, Slavery among the rest. Under
that stale of things, so far from its being
true that the States where Slavery exists
have the exclusive management of ihe subject, not only the President of the United
States, but the Commander of the army
.nation of the slaves."—John Q. Adams.
THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
It is exceedingly difficult to speak or to
write on this subject without to some extent
giving aid and comfort to the rebels. The
war itself, unhappily, has thus far given very
little else than aid and comfort to them.—
Their hopes of breaking up the Union, and
of establishing a grand slaveholding empire
in which slaveholders alone shall be the lawgivers, seems to increase with every step in
the progress of the war. Difficult however
as it is to write, we must endeavor to present
to our readers and friends on both sides of
the At'ant'ci as best we may, our monthly
view of the war, its character, progress and
effects. Nothing is gained by partial statements, unsupported by facts ; and however
humiliating and saddening the truth may be,
a brave man is sternly prepared to know the
worst. Much has been hoped from the virtue, enlightenment, wealth and humanity of
our present Administration ; but thus far very
little has been accomplished to justify the
hopes and expectations of the friends of justice and humanity. To tell the simple truth,
we can only report in this our September
number, after waiting for events up to the
last hour, for something to relieve the picture
of its sombre aspect—what in substance we
have reported before, with every variation of
rhetoric we could command, that our National Republican Administration at Washington
still seems very earnestly endeavoring to find
out how not to put down and destroy this
monstrous slaveholding rebellion. Their ef
forts iu this direction have been crowned by
entire success. Had our President and Cabinet avowed their purpose to prosecute the
war with weakness instead of vigor, with
awkwardness rather than skill,;to shed loyal
blood rather than that of the rebels, to spend
the most money to the least advantage, they
could not have reached that result by any
other course sooner than by that which they
have thus far pursued. In nearly every battle of importance we have managed to give
the rebels the victory. We are beaten in every
battle, till dissatisfaction and demoralization
has become the leading features of the news
from our army at Washington. Never was
a vast stock of popular confidence so speedily dissipated. Nor is this strange. No people can long confide in the ability and integrity of a Government whose career is only
marked with 'disappointments, blunders and
defeats.
Among the bad symptoms of the times is
the revival of old political divisions at the
North. These, after having disappeared amid
the smoke aud flame of the bombardment of
Sumter, it was hoped never to return again,
have now re-appeared and threaten to rage
with all the malignant fury, and with all the
hurtful consequences which have marked their
history in other tiiuflo ...X"^™—-^,-, -^..oTVtation,
imbecility are now open'-y '■■,.-. "led iu the face
of the Administration, not only by pro-slavery
Democrats, but by men who a few months
ago were its warm defenders aud supporters.
This is no flippant declamation, no wholesale
invective, but the impression derived from a
sober observation of the general state of facts.
All over the North men are beginning to feel
that unless the Government shall speedily redeem itself, by some direct and powerful proceeding, the last remaining vestige of public
confidence in it will be swept away.
Examine its war history. Did ever a Government present to the world a more disheartening record ? Leaving out the horrible
butchery of our troops at Great Bethel aud
Vienna, through the ignorance and blunders
of their officers, the country had scarcely recovered from the shock caused by the still
more dreadful battle at Manassas Junction, where our valiant troops were led like
lambs to the slaughter, shot down by tens,
and hundreds by concealed foes, from rifle
pits, trenches, and masked batteries, till they
fled panic-stricken from the impregnable fortifications of the enemy like very chaff before
a furious whirlwind ;—we say, scarcely had
we thus been humbled by this terrible calamity, when on comes another from the seat of
war in Missouri. Cover up the fact as we
may, the Federal army met with a most heartrending reverse in the South-west, the actual
damage of which can hardly be estimated.—
Our gallant little army of five thousand men,
under General Lyon, were left by the Government to be defeated and cut to pieces, if not
destroyed, by a rebel army of five times their
number. The blood of the brave and faith
ful Lyon now cries :from the ground against
the Government. Never was a General, so
brave and patriotic, thus'mercilessly and un-
gratefully sacrificed by the country. He had
called loud and earnestly upon the Government for reinforcements ; but the Government
was practically deaf to the call, and left him
and his brave companions either to perform a
miracle, or to be completely overwhelmed by
superior numbers. They performed wonders.
They were terrific in all the elements of courage ; but alas ! they were only five thousand
arrayed against twenty-five thousand, and were
defeated. Shame upon the neglect that left
them to such a fate !
We are writing on the progress of the War,-
but is not this really a misnomer ? Has the
Government actually made any progress at
all ? Are we not now even in a worse condition than atthe beginning ? The Capital was
in danger in May, and it is in no less danger
in August. Our newspapers flamed then with
alarming telegrams of the advance of the
Confederate forces upon Washington. They
so flame now. In fact, we seem to be nearly
in the same condition that we were in when
Major Anderson was compelled- to give up
the shattered walls of Fort Sumter. The
enemy is now as prond, confident and defiant
t»o o.<t, *.b<3 UgmrfiiB, ami Ute promised suppression of re,l->e\lion seems,as far off as ever."
It is not at all surprising that this state of
facts should measurably destroy the vast stock
of public confidence reposed in the Government at the beginning of the war, and such
is really the case whatever show may be
made to the contrary by great money loans to
the Government. The feeling is becoming
general that a new element must be infused
into the Government forces, and that unless a
new turn is given to the conflict, and that
without delay, we might as well remove Mr.
Lincoln out of the President's chair, and
respectfully invite Jefferson Davis or some
other slaveholdiDg rebel to take shis* place.
The conduct of the Government has been
such as to weaken its friends, and in many
respects to strengthen its enemies. Witness
the fact that it has retained in offices of profit
and honor, where they could be of the utmost service to the rebels, persons that refused to swear to support the Constitution
under which they were protected and honored. Witness the release of rebel prisoners
simply upon their word of honor, which word
was already dishonored by the blackest treason.
Witness the toleration of Breckinridge,
Burnett and Vallandigham in Congress,
whose sole business there during the whole
session was to- give aid and comfort to the
rebels, and to cripple the Government.—
Witness the repeated and uncontradicted assertion of the reporters at Washington, that
until recently the rebels had troops of spies
and informers, men and women in that city.—
Witness the oft-repeated and shameless declaration of nearly all our Generals—doubtless
with the approbation of the President him-

ONTHLY.
" OPEN THT MOUTH FOR THE DUMB, IN THE CAUSE OF ALL SUCH AS ARE APPOINTED TO DESTRUCTION ; OPEN THT MOUTH,
JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY, AND PLEAD THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY." Proverbs XXxL 8, 9.
VOLUME IV.
NUMBER IV.
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1861.
PRICE
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
CONTENTS OF THE PRESENT NUMBER.
The Progress of the War 513
Cast off the Mill Stone „- 514
Shall Slavery Survive the War? ... 515
Fighting Rebels with only one Hand 516
l&ev. Mt. Qai-net revisits England 516
Our Army still at Slave-Catching 517
Our Soldiers and Contrabands 517
tetter to President Lincoln 518
No Terms with Traitors 5X8
Nat Turner's Insurrection 520
A Right Kind ol Colonel 522
Wendell Phillips ou the War 523
Whv was John Brown Hung? 523
The Contraband Question 524
The War, Washington, and Black Warriors 525
Poetry 525
The Negroes at Fortress Monroe 526
An Important Admisssion _ 526
Separation or Emancipation 527
Black Heroism 627
Miscellaneous Items 627
DoWLTfFTpTHLY!
" I lay this down as the law of nations.
I say that the military authority takes, for
the time, the place of municipal institutions, Slavery among the rest. Under
that stale of things, so far from its being
true that the States where Slavery exists
have the exclusive management of ihe subject, not only the President of the United
States, but the Commander of the army
.nation of the slaves."—John Q. Adams.
THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
It is exceedingly difficult to speak or to
write on this subject without to some extent
giving aid and comfort to the rebels. The
war itself, unhappily, has thus far given very
little else than aid and comfort to them.—
Their hopes of breaking up the Union, and
of establishing a grand slaveholding empire
in which slaveholders alone shall be the lawgivers, seems to increase with every step in
the progress of the war. Difficult however
as it is to write, we must endeavor to present
to our readers and friends on both sides of
the At'ant'ci as best we may, our monthly
view of the war, its character, progress and
effects. Nothing is gained by partial statements, unsupported by facts ; and however
humiliating and saddening the truth may be,
a brave man is sternly prepared to know the
worst. Much has been hoped from the virtue, enlightenment, wealth and humanity of
our present Administration ; but thus far very
little has been accomplished to justify the
hopes and expectations of the friends of justice and humanity. To tell the simple truth,
we can only report in this our September
number, after waiting for events up to the
last hour, for something to relieve the picture
of its sombre aspect—what in substance we
have reported before, with every variation of
rhetoric we could command, that our National Republican Administration at Washington
still seems very earnestly endeavoring to find
out how not to put down and destroy this
monstrous slaveholding rebellion. Their ef
forts iu this direction have been crowned by
entire success. Had our President and Cabinet avowed their purpose to prosecute the
war with weakness instead of vigor, with
awkwardness rather than skill,;to shed loyal
blood rather than that of the rebels, to spend
the most money to the least advantage, they
could not have reached that result by any
other course sooner than by that which they
have thus far pursued. In nearly every battle of importance we have managed to give
the rebels the victory. We are beaten in every
battle, till dissatisfaction and demoralization
has become the leading features of the news
from our army at Washington. Never was
a vast stock of popular confidence so speedily dissipated. Nor is this strange. No people can long confide in the ability and integrity of a Government whose career is only
marked with 'disappointments, blunders and
defeats.
Among the bad symptoms of the times is
the revival of old political divisions at the
North. These, after having disappeared amid
the smoke aud flame of the bombardment of
Sumter, it was hoped never to return again,
have now re-appeared and threaten to rage
with all the malignant fury, and with all the
hurtful consequences which have marked their
history in other tiiuflo ...X"^™—-^,-, -^..oTVtation,
imbecility are now open'-y '■■,.-. "led iu the face
of the Administration, not only by pro-slavery
Democrats, but by men who a few months
ago were its warm defenders aud supporters.
This is no flippant declamation, no wholesale
invective, but the impression derived from a
sober observation of the general state of facts.
All over the North men are beginning to feel
that unless the Government shall speedily redeem itself, by some direct and powerful proceeding, the last remaining vestige of public
confidence in it will be swept away.
Examine its war history. Did ever a Government present to the world a more disheartening record ? Leaving out the horrible
butchery of our troops at Great Bethel aud
Vienna, through the ignorance and blunders
of their officers, the country had scarcely recovered from the shock caused by the still
more dreadful battle at Manassas Junction, where our valiant troops were led like
lambs to the slaughter, shot down by tens,
and hundreds by concealed foes, from rifle
pits, trenches, and masked batteries, till they
fled panic-stricken from the impregnable fortifications of the enemy like very chaff before
a furious whirlwind ;—we say, scarcely had
we thus been humbled by this terrible calamity, when on comes another from the seat of
war in Missouri. Cover up the fact as we
may, the Federal army met with a most heartrending reverse in the South-west, the actual
damage of which can hardly be estimated.—
Our gallant little army of five thousand men,
under General Lyon, were left by the Government to be defeated and cut to pieces, if not
destroyed, by a rebel army of five times their
number. The blood of the brave and faith
ful Lyon now cries :from the ground against
the Government. Never was a General, so
brave and patriotic, thus'mercilessly and un-
gratefully sacrificed by the country. He had
called loud and earnestly upon the Government for reinforcements ; but the Government
was practically deaf to the call, and left him
and his brave companions either to perform a
miracle, or to be completely overwhelmed by
superior numbers. They performed wonders.
They were terrific in all the elements of courage ; but alas ! they were only five thousand
arrayed against twenty-five thousand, and were
defeated. Shame upon the neglect that left
them to such a fate !
We are writing on the progress of the War,-
but is not this really a misnomer ? Has the
Government actually made any progress at
all ? Are we not now even in a worse condition than atthe beginning ? The Capital was
in danger in May, and it is in no less danger
in August. Our newspapers flamed then with
alarming telegrams of the advance of the
Confederate forces upon Washington. They
so flame now. In fact, we seem to be nearly
in the same condition that we were in when
Major Anderson was compelled- to give up
the shattered walls of Fort Sumter. The
enemy is now as prond, confident and defiant
t»o o.e\lion seems,as far off as ever."
It is not at all surprising that this state of
facts should measurably destroy the vast stock
of public confidence reposed in the Government at the beginning of the war, and such
is really the case whatever show may be
made to the contrary by great money loans to
the Government. The feeling is becoming
general that a new element must be infused
into the Government forces, and that unless a
new turn is given to the conflict, and that
without delay, we might as well remove Mr.
Lincoln out of the President's chair, and
respectfully invite Jefferson Davis or some
other slaveholdiDg rebel to take shis* place.
The conduct of the Government has been
such as to weaken its friends, and in many
respects to strengthen its enemies. Witness
the fact that it has retained in offices of profit
and honor, where they could be of the utmost service to the rebels, persons that refused to swear to support the Constitution
under which they were protected and honored. Witness the release of rebel prisoners
simply upon their word of honor, which word
was already dishonored by the blackest treason.
Witness the toleration of Breckinridge,
Burnett and Vallandigham in Congress,
whose sole business there during the whole
session was to- give aid and comfort to the
rebels, and to cripple the Government.—
Witness the repeated and uncontradicted assertion of the reporters at Washington, that
until recently the rebels had troops of spies
and informers, men and women in that city.—
Witness the oft-repeated and shameless declaration of nearly all our Generals—doubtless
with the approbation of the President him-